Lamentations Through the Centuries (eBook)

Paul M. Joyce holds the Samuel Davidson Chair in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at King's College London. He was formerly University Lecturer in the Old Testament at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College. He is the author of Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel (1989) and Ezekiel: A Commentary (2007); and is co-editor of Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder (with Stanley E. Porter and David E. Orton, 1994); After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (with Andrew Mein, 2011); Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of Professor John Barton (with Katharine Dell, 2013); and The God Ezekiel Creates (with Dalit Rom-Shiloni, 2015). Diana Lipton teaches at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg International School. She has been a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, as well as Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis (1999) and Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales (2008), and is co-editor of Feminism and Theology (with Janet Martin Soskice, 2003) and Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon (with Geoffrey Kahn, 2011).

Series Editors' Preface viii

Abbreviations x

List of Figures xii

Introduction 1

COMMENTARY 26

Afterword 193

Bibliography 196

Author Index 206

Subject Index 209

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is informative, thought-provoking, and -despite being a commentary - holds the reader's attention. It made me appreciateLamentations in a new way. To be recommended." (The Swedish Exegetical Yearbook 2014, 1 October 2014)



"In this engrossing investigation of Lamentations --a
splendid addition to the Wiley-Blackwell commentary series-- Paul
Joyce and Diana Lipton draw on a fascinating array of visual,
literary, musical, scholarly, religious and secular responses
[...] an indispensable resource for scholars and students of
the book of Lamentations, for those interested in the manifold ways
it has been interpreted and appropriated, and for anyone curious
about reception history in general and what it can teach
us."--J. Cheryl Exum, University of
Sheffield

"Mourning the physical Jerusalem is the business of the
biblical Lamentations. Showing us how this is done in the book and
in its reception history, over the ages, is the business of the
present volume. The volume's value as guide through mourning is
greatly enhanced by its inception as a Jewish-Christian authorly
cooperation. Jerusalem the symbolical is thus well served; and we,
the readers, those who nurture our own Jerusalems, gain a guide to
mourning--as much necessary, perhaps, as any guide for
joy."--Athalya Brenner, Universiteit van
Amsterdam